Let’s look at two practical activities for tech transfer to CDMOs, and two pieces of just as practical advice for working with those service providers, all four to help you increase your Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) effectiveness.
This two-part article on biocontainment is a companion to our discussion of potent compounds, which focused primarily on chemically derived drug substances and drug components. While analogous to chemical potent compounds, biologically derived ingredients, intermediates, and products are produced by human manipulation of naturally occurring lifeforms and their byproducts.
This article presents a new scale for measuring the risk of compound carryover in shared facilities based on the process capability of a cleaning process that can be used to evaluate the probability of cross-contamination by compounds manufactured in a shared facility or equipment train.
You just received an official notification from your CMO: It is going to remediate the facility in which you have been making a commercial product for six years. Now, you look at your options. You can stay with your current CMO, or you can take this opportunity — forced though it may be — to determine if it is time for a change.
Is your team ready to manufacture larger batch sizes to support if Phase III studies are on the horizon?
How starting early, building options into your process, understanding the lead times, and continuing to evaluate your strategy can reduce uncertainty in your plans.
Current market conditions such as regulations and mergers or acquisitions make improving compliance and manufacturing efficiency while driving to grow revenue and margins difficult. Read on to understand strategies, frameworks and recommendations to achieve these goals.
The use of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) and MAb conjugates as biopharmaceuticals have increased over the last decade. As a result, more cost-effective, efficient, and flexible process purification solutions are of high priority for MAb manufacturers. Increasing product titers upstream can introduce challenges in downstream purification processes. With increased MAb titers, the cell culture supernatant might contain an elevated number of impurities (e.g., aggregates) that need to be separated from the target molecule.
What documentation and steps are required to clear a product shipment for entry into China? What is the ability for major airports in Brazil to store refrigerated products while they are awaiting customs clearance?
As the global biosimilars market continues to grow, so do the complications. Biopharma companies are facing new challenges to reduce their risk and cost and achieve a faster time-to-market to stay competitive.
CMOs can empower their sponsors or customers to conduct many of these activities on their own products or processes through better data transparency.
Single-use technologies offer an attractive option for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, but their environmental impact needs be considered.
As a class of molecules, mAbs exhibit many shared properties, making them well-suited for a platform approach to downstream bioprocessing.
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Cold is undeniably the new normal for the biopharmaceutical industry. By 2020, greater than half of bestselling drugs will be cold-chain products, most of which are injectable.
When selecting a bioreactor, you can choose stainless steel or single-use technologies, depending on your biomanufacturing requirements. The bioreactor is a key component of your bioprocessing workflow and should be regarded as a strategic asset. It is important that this core technology is carefully chosen, specified, designed, and supported, both now and in the future.
At the early stages of product development, pharmaceutical development scientists are under increasing time pressure to select the right molecule form, the right formulation and the right final dose form.
In order to ensure a smooth development and clinical process, companies must carefully plan their activities with regard to the innovator biopharmaceutical.
Biotech firms often have tight timelines to prove the concept of their NCE. As a result, modern clinical development pathway requires rapid manufacturing of the “first Kilo”.
